City Lights Bookstore
Venue Type: Bookstore
Hosting several literary events a week, this is a classic San Francisco bookstore. Its focuses include poetry, sociopolitical awareness, and a general diversity of cultural resources. It also has a publishing branch, for both big name and up-and-coming authors.
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Current Shows at this Venue
Tue 12.01.09 Jeffrey Haas: The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Thu 12.03.09 Kevin Killian: Impossible Princess
Tue 12.08.09 The Golden Anniversary Edition of Beatitude Magazine
Wed 12.09.09 Anselm Berrigan: Free Cell
Thu 12.10.09 City Lights Celebrates GRANTA Magazine
Tue 12.15.09 Ralph Metzner: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
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City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
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Comment by: Zoe
Life of the Mind
This really is a meeting place for various threads of the greatest San Francisco traditions. On the one hand, one sort of expects to see crowds of bookshoppers in tie-dye or dreadlocks, digging through piles of alternative graphic novels full of ironic social commentary. On the other hand, there is an abundance of highminded liberal NPResque literature and its accoutrements. Basically, if I ever feel that my education quotient is slipping, I'll just hang out in the general vicinity of these bookshelves and absorb some intellectual culture by osmosis.